Live-streaming of Budget & Control Board meetings on the Internet
State Comptroller Richard Eckstrom is making arrangements for meetings of the Budget and Control Board to be live-streamed via the Internet.
On Tuesday, Eckstrom sent a letter to members of the board to advise them that ETV has tentatively agreed to live-stream the meeting on its Web site, scetv.org. The meeting is set for 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
“It’s my hope that the live-streaming of these meetings will be an ongoing thing,” said Eckstrom. “The Budget and Control Board is a powerful entity with tremendous influence over state spending, yet most people probably don’t know what goes on in these meetings – or what the Budget and Control Board even does. The goal is to provide greater citizen-access to these important deliberations.
“Certainly, any time government officials can find ways to open up deliberations to the public, everyone wins.”